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At the age of 17, Stephen Shore was a regular at Andy Warhol's Factory. By the age of 23 he became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Shore is an unrivaled pioneer in his field, and his work has been exhibited in numerous museums worldwide, influencing generations of photographers. Stephen Shore will discuss his work with the Strand audience and sign copies of his books.
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Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors--and born vaudevillians--Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original and powerfully informative, the book is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Thomas and Daniel will teach the Strand audience Philosophy 101, their way.
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New York Times prize-winning correspondent Dexter Filkin's work in Iraq was hailed by David Halberstam as "reporting of the highest quality imaginable." Now, through Filkin's eyes, we witness the chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, led to the attacks of 9/11, and culminated in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Like no other book, The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of the war on terror and of the experiences of the people involved, combatants and victims alike.
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In The Enchantress of Florence, Sir Salman Rushdie weaves together the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers--the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Emperor Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and treachery, and the sensual city of Florence, where Niccolo Machiavelli takes a starring role.
The Strand invites you to attend a reading and wine & cheese reception, with Sir Salman Rushdie, in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Books Room. Ticket price includes a signed copy of The Enchantress of Florence and a Strand tote bag.
Tickets are now available for purchase at our 828 Broadway location or on strandbooks.com. Limited to 140 people. Tickets are $40.
Buy a ticket now.
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Veteran underground cartoonist Kim Deitch, creator of the acclaimed Fantagraphics collection Shadowland and the Pantheon graphic novels Alias the Cat and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Alternating between heavily illustrated near-comics stories and outright prose, Pictorama is a testament to the entire Deitch family's amazing yarn-spinning abilities.
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A rollicking, hyper-fast paced front row seat to the iconic late-night celebrity-studded party of 80s New York, Master of Ceremonies is the compelling and often tender true story of a fledgling actor whose first big break results in a two-year stint at the world's most famous and hedonistic strip club. Sterry will share his stories with us.
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The self-taught chef and owner of the Greenwich Village restaurant (and institution, since 1971), Shopsin's, will discuss this most profound and profane cookbook.
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Who made New York the center of the chic and urbane interior--a city where Andy Warhol entertained in a French Empire salon and Babe Paley served martinis and cigarettes in her taxicab-yellow living room? The answer can be found in the illustrated profiles of nearly 100 interior designers featured in the two volumes of New York Interior Design, 1935-1985. The author of the two volumes, Judith Gura, a professor at the New York School of Interior Design, will lead a discussion on how NY got its look with two designers featured in the books: Mario Buatta and Joseph Paul D'Urso.
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Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. Deadly serious, masterfully playful and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis. Renowned writer and Professor Lorrie Moore, who is a good friend of the author's, will participate in a discussion with Barnes about his memoir. This is Barnes' only NYC appearance for this title.
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Piecebook is an inside look at graffiti writers' black books, which they use to share ideas and sketch out tags before putting them up on walls. Piecebook chronicles the evolution of graffiti via images that weren't intended for everyday people to see, focusing on the works of NYC writers active from the 1970s until the mid-1980s. Bold works from graffiti history's most important artists, including Zephyr, Dondi, Daze, CRASH, Lady Pink, T-Kid, CAP and Ghost, represent a dizzying array of techniques and styles. Jenkins was the founder of seminal hip-hop magazine ego trip and was the long-time editorial director of Mass Appeal magazine. Villorente was a notorious tagger and the editor of Source magazine's graffiti pages. They'll discuss their new book with the Strand audience.
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Francine Prose, the president of PEN American Center and the author of fifteen books of fiction, including National Book Award finalist Blue Angel, and the nonfiction New York Times best-seller Reading Like a Writer, will discuss her latest novel about adolescence.
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Having already surpassed milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. A riveting chronicle of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth century as well as a powerful environmental wake-up call, Bottlemania is essential reading for anyone who shells out $2 to quench their thirst. Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbage Land, has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian and other national magazines.
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Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Julie Salamon spent a year in the life of New York's Maimonides Medical Center and, in Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids, paints a revealing portrait of how big medicine operates today. Dr. Charles Bardes, is a physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate Dean at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. In his book, Pale Faces: The Masks of Anemia, Dr. Bardes explores the impact of both science and culture on the treatment of anemia across the ages.
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The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form... and how it formed him! The first part of Breakdowns traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his son. The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought-after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Art will share his poignant, funny, innovative memoir with us.
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In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in Bat-Manga! hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photos of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. Chip Kidd, a graphic designer and writer whose two previous books about comics, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz and Mythology: the DC Comics Art of Alex Ross won Eisner Awards and were national bestsellers, will discuss Bat-Manga! at the Strand.
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Natasha Wimmer, translator of Roberto Bolano's posthumous masterwork, 2666: A Novel, will discuss the art of translation with Edith Grossman, translator of Antonio Munoz Molina's A Manuscript of Ashes. More information to come about this event.
World premier of Calvin Trillin's latest collection of political poetry.
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Martin Parr, a key figure in the world of photography and widely recognized as a brilliant satirist of contemporary life, will share this collection of photographic and themed objects with the Strand audience. Parr is the author of over 30 photography books and his photographs have been collected by museums worldwide, including the Getty, The Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern.
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